Pedestrian crosswalk safety at nonsignalized crossings during nighttime: Use of thermal video data and surrogate safety measures

Transportation Research Record

Volumn 2586, Issue , 2016, Pages 90-99

  Fu, Ting ^a   Miranda Moreno, Luis ^a   Saunier, Nicolas ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; INFRARED DEVICES; PEDESTRIAN SAFETY; VIDEO RECORDING; VISIBILITY;

APPROACHING SPEED; LOW VISIBILITY; NONINTERACTING; PEDESTRIAN EXPOSURE; ROAD USERS; SAFETY CONDITION; SAFETY MEASURES; THERMAL; THERMAL CAMERA; VIDEO DATA;

CROSSWALKS;

EID: 85015396772     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: 21694052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2586-10     Document Type: Article

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